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New airstrikes in Syria take aim at Islamic State's oil money

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:48 PM PDT

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A third night of U.S.-led airstrikes pounded Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in eastern Syria, as the United States and its partners moved to choke off a crucial source of revenue for the militant group, U.S. officials said on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined in the strikes by piloted and drone aircraft targeting facilities around al Mayadin, al Hasakah, and Abu Kamal, the U.S. military said. The U.S. ...

Turkish leader says world not doing enough

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:45 PM PDT

President Recep Tayyib Erdogan of Turkey addresses a meeting of the United Nations Security Council regarding the threat of foreign terrorist fighters during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The president of Turkey on Wednesday accused the international community of doing too little to stem the flow of foreign fighters to Syria and slammed the U.N. Security Council's inaction on some of the world's most pressing issues.


Algerian militants behead kidnapped French tourist

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:21 PM PDT

File still image taken from video of a man who identified himself as Herve Gourdel sitting in between two masked gunmenBy Patrick Markey ALGIERS (Reuters) - Algerian militants have beheaded French tourist Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday in what the group said was a response to France's action against Islamic State militants in Iraq. In a video released by his captors, Gourdel, a 55-year-old from Nice, is seen kneeling with his arms tied behind his back before four masked militants who read out a statement in Arabic criticising France's intervention. They then pushed him on his side and held him down. ...


7 Ways Women Veterans Have It Worse Than Our Men in Uniform

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:15 PM PDT

Health care for women who served in the military is grossly inadequate, according to a damning new report from the Disabled American Veterans.

Risks for Arab states in joining anti-IS campaign

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:04 PM PDT

In a handout picture released by the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA), Saudi air force pilots sit in a fighter jet at an undisclosed location on September 23, 2014, after taking part in a mission to strike Islamic State group targets in SyriaDubai (AFP) - By joining US-led strikes in Syria, Gulf Arab monarchies are hoping to eliminate the threat to their authority from Islamic State jihadists and push the regime in Damascus out of power.


US strikes IS oil refineries in Syria

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 04:00 PM PDT

An image grab taken from a video released by the Islamic State group's official Al-Raqqa site via YouTube on September 23, 2014, allegedly shows recruits riding in armed trucks in an unknown locationUnited Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States bombed Islamic State-controlled oil refineries in Syria on Wednesday as President Barack Obama recruited more allies to fight the jihadist "network of death."


US-led air strikes target IS oil refineries in Syria

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:57 PM PDT

In this picture downloaded from the US Navy website and taken on September 23, 2013, an F/A-18F Super Hornet lands aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) after conducting strike missions against Islamic State (IS) group targetsWashington (AFP) - The US-led air war against Islamic State extremists targeted oil refineries in eastern Syria on Wednesday, in a bid to undercut the group's oil smuggling profits, the Pentagon said.


UK recalls lawmakers to vote on air strikes against Islamic State in Iraq

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT

LONDON (Reuters) - British lawmakers will vote on Friday whether to join U.S.-led airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq after Baghdad requested help, the British government said on Wednesday. "I have requested that Parliament be recalled to debate the UK response to the Iraqi government's request for support against ISIL (Islamic State)," British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Twitter. Baghdad had asked for British air strikes to support its operations against the Islamist fighters, a spokesman for Cameron said. The U.S. ...

Netherlands to send F-16s to fight Islamic State in Iraq

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:44 PM PDT

By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - The Dutch government said on Wednesday it would deploy six F-16 fighter jets, which could be operational in a week, to support the U.S.-led strikes against Islamic State insurgents in Iraq. The Netherlands, a member of NATO and a close U.S. ally, will target the ultra-radical Islamist militants in Iraq and provide training and advice to Iraqi and Kurdish regional military forces for a period of up to one year, Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher told journalists. ...

U.N. backs strong laws against foreign extremist fighters

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:41 PM PDT

U.S. President Obama attends a luncheon for world leaders at the 69th United Nations General Assembly in New YorkBy Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council demanded on Wednesday that all states make it a serious criminal offense for their citizens to travel abroad to fight with militant groups, or to recruit and fund others to do so, in a move sparked by the rise of Islamic State. At a meeting chaired by U.S. President Barack Obama, the 15-member council unanimously adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution that compels countries to "prevent and suppress" the recruitment and travel of militant fighters to foreign conflicts. The U.N. ...


Details of mission against Syria, Iraq militants

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:40 PM PDT

Map shows the locations of U.S. coalition airstrikes in Syria targeting the Islamic State or ISIL; 2c x 4 1/2 inches; 96.3 mm x 114 mm;WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. and five Arab countries launched airstrikes this week on Islamic State group targets and an al-Qaida group in Syria. Some facts about the military action:


Turkey shifts tone on IS but action awaited

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:37 PM PDT

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 24, 2014Ankara (AFP) - Turkey has toughened its rhetoric against Islamic State jihadists but the West is still waiting for action from Ankara after months of frustration with its lukewarm cooperation.


Jihadist says Foley, Cantlie converted to Islam in captivity

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:30 PM PDT

This handout picture courtesy of Nicole Tung taken on November 5, 2012 in Aleppo shows US freelance reporter James FoleyBrussels (AFP) - Western journalists James Foley and John Cantlie converted to Islam while being held hostage in Syria, a Belgian newspaper quoted a jihadist suspect as saying Wednesday, adding that the pair may have been forced to do so.


F-22 Raptor makes debut combat flight

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:29 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Envisioned in the 1990s as crucial to U.S. military superiority in the next century, the sleek, radar-evading F-22 Raptor has finally seen its first combat.

US hits Islamic State group in both Syria and Iraq

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:24 PM PDT

BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. fighter jets and bombers expanded their aerial campaign against Islamic State targets Wednesday, striking the militants in both Syria and Iraq even as the extremists pressed their offensive in Kurdish areas within sight of the Turkish border, where fleeing refugees told of civilians beheaded and towns torched.

Doubts cast over US strike on 'Khorasan' group

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:19 PM PDT

Supporters of Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate Al-Nusra Front hold placards calling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a "terrorist", as they demonstrate in the northern city of Alepppo on September 24, 2014Beirut (AFP) - The US says it has hit a little-known group called "Khorasan" in Syria, but experts and activists argue it actually struck Al-Qaeda's affiliate Al-Nusra Front, which fights alongside Syrian rebels.


U.N. Security Council passes resolution on foreign jihadists

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:15 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama chairs a UN Security Council summit meeting on foreign terrorist fighters in New York on September 24, 2014United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday led the UN Security Council in approving a resolution demanding that countries take action to stem the flow of foreign jihadists to Iraq and Syria.


Iran, Britain seek to improve ties, say nuclear deal vital

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:15 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a high-level meeting on post-2015 anti-poverty goals at the Ford Foundation in New YorkBy Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron's office said on Wednesday he and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani agreed that the two countries should work to improve ties and it was crucial for Tehran and major powers to reach a long-term nuclear deal. The Prime Minister and President, who met at the United Nations in New York in the first such meeting since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, also discussed the threat from Islamic State militants, who have taken over parts of Syria and Iraq. ...


Drill sergeant found guilty of sex assaults

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:11 PM PDT

In this photo provided by the U.S. Army is Staff Sgt. Angel Sanchez. Sanchez, 30, is accused of using his supervisory position with the 14th Military Police Brigade to threaten some of the women he was tasked with training. Most of the allegations involved women at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri, but some involved women in Afghanistan and Fort Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri drill sergeant is guilty of sexually assaulting and harassing several female soldiers, a military judge ruled Wednesday.


Obama at UN: Dismantle the IS 'network of death'

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:10 PM PDT

a structure in Tall Al Qitar, Syria moments after a U.S. airstrikeUNITED NATIONS (AP) — Declaring the world at a "crossroads between war and peace," President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle the Islamic State militant group's "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action in the region.


US slaps sanctions on 12 'terrorist' group supporters

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:06 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama chairs a special meeting of the UN security council during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly on September 24, 2014 in New YorkWashington (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday issued financial sanctions against 11 individuals and a foreign entity it designated as "global terrorists", vowing to disrupt the finances of the Islamic State group and Al-Qaeda.


Islamist fighters advance in Syria despite U.S. strikes

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 03:00 PM PDT

U.S. Navy handout shows EA-6B Prowler attached to the Garudas of Electronic Attack Squadron 134 landing aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush after conducting strike missions against Islamic State targets, in the GulfBy Kinda Makieh and Jonny Hogg DAMASCUS/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - U.S. planes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day on Wednesday, but the strikes did not halt the fighters' advance in a Kurdish area where fleeing refugees told of villages burnt and captives beheaded. U.S. President Barack Obama, speaking at the United Nations, asked the world to join together to fight the militants and vowed to keep up military pressure against them. ...


More Than 100 Muslim Clerics Sign Letter Condemning ISIS

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:57 PM PDT

More Than 100 Muslim Clerics Sign Letter Condemning ISISTop Muslim leaders in the United States on Wednesday released a detailed refutation of claims by the terrorist group ISIS that its actions in Iraq and Syria are in keeping with Islamic law. The letter, signed by 111 prominent clerics from around the world, lists dozens of ways in which the clerics assert that ISIS has consistently violated Islamic law. Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said in a presentation at the National Press Club in Washington that the purpose of the letter is to "debunk and expose the falsity" of the claim that ISIS is operating within the dictates of the Islamic religion. Addressed to ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and to "The fighters and followers of the self-declared 'Islamic State,'" it addresses 24 different statements or actions by ISIS and its members that the signatories say are specific violations of Islamic law.


UN meets facing multiple crises; Obama to speak

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:47 PM PDT

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, greets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani before a meeting at the United Nations Tuesday, Sept 23, 2014, on the sidelines of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly. (AP Photo/Jewel Samad, Pool)UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief called for world leaders Wednesday to join an international campaign to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refugees, the displaced and victims of violence in a world wracked by wars and the swift-spreading and deadly Ebola epidemic.


Defeating Islamic State – with an alternative vision

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:42 PM PDT

In a speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, President Obama made an impassioned plea to Muslims to offer an alternative vision to those of groups like the Islamic State (IS) and Al Qaeda. "No external power can bring about a transformation of hearts and minds," he said. 

Medical 'wasteland' in Iraqi warzones: MSF

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:32 PM PDT

Iraqi people take water from a humanitarian aid convoy in Amerli on September 1, 2014Geneva (AFP) - Medical services in Iraq's conflict zones have collapsed, leaving millions of people in a health "wasteland", as the spectre of epidemics stalks the country, aid charity MSF warned on Wednesday.


British PM, Iran leader discuss IS in historic talks

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:29 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron (L) meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the UN during the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York on September 24, 2014United Nations (United States) (AFP) - British Prime Minister David Cameron sought to win cooperation from Iran's President Hassan Rouhani against jihadists in Syria on Wednesday in the first meeting between the countries' leaders in 35 years.


Jordan king urges international defeat of jihadists

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 02:18 PM PDT

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during the UN General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 24, 2014United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II, a key US ally in the fight against jihadists in Iraq and Syria, called Wednesday for a collective strategy to defeat militants who threaten global security.


Obama hails 'vision' of Iraqi PM at first meeting

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:59 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi meet during the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, September 24, 2014United Nations (United States) (AFP) - US President Barack Obama on Wednesday hailed the "political vision" and inclusive nature of new Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi as the two leaders met for the first time.


Algerian Islamic militants behead French hostage

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:56 PM PDT

A man who identified himself as Herve GourdelALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — An Algerian splinter group from al-Qaida has beheaded a French hostage over France's airstrikes on the Islamic State group, in a sign of the possible widening of the crisis in Iraq and Syria to the rest of the region.


Factbox: Arab states line up behind U.S. in fight against Islamic State

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:50 PM PDT

(Reuters) - U.S. warplanes pounded Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq for a second day on Wednesday as President Barack Obama tried to rally support for the coalition fighting the extremist group during an address to the U.N. General Assembly in New York. U.S. Central Command said Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar had participated in or supported strikes against Islamic State targets during the opening day of the campaign on Tuesday. ...

Interpol to boost data sharing on foreign fighters in Syria, Iraq

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:50 PM PDT

By Aruna Viswanatha WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Interpol has set up a new program to improve its sharing of information about foreign militants who have traveled to fight in Iraq and Syria, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday. The program is aimed at better monitoring and limiting the international movement of such fighters, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Interpol, which has 190 member countries, has created a database that includes detailed identifying information for law enforcement and border agents to help assess terrorist threats, the department said. ...

Britain's Cameron backs military component in fight against Islamic State

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:49 PM PDT

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron called for a comprehensive strategy against Islamic State militants involving "our military" ahead of a vote by British lawmakers on Friday on whether to join U.S.-led airstrikes against the group in Iraq. "Our strategy must work in tandem with Arab states, always in support of local people, in line with our legal obligations and as part of a plan that involves our aid, our diplomacy and, yes, our military," Cameron told a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. "We need to act and we need to act now," he ...

U.S. oil could step in if Mideast fields knocked out: senator

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:40 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If U.S.-led attacks knock out oil fields controlled by Islamic State militants, petroleum from the American drilling boom could make up for any shortfall on global markets, a report released by a Republican senator said on Wednesday. U.S. bombs blasted Islamic State positions in Syria for a second day on Wednesday. Militants have been funding their efforts in part by seizing a dozen or so oilfields in Syria and Iraq, controlling refineries and smuggling oil and fuel to nearby markets. ...

Turks leave for "family-friendly" IS group

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:27 PM PDT

In this Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 photo, car salesman Sahin Aktan shows photos of his ex-wife Asiya Ummi Abdullah as he speaks during an interview at his lawyer's office in Istanbul, Turkey. Aktan, 44, is the ex-husband of Asiya Ummi Abdullah, a 24-year-old Muslim convert who took their child to the territory controlled by Islamic State. Her experience illustrates the puritanical pull of the Islamic State group, the self-styled caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria that has sent shockwaves around the world with its bloodthirsty campaign. It also shows how, even in Turkey - one of the most modern and prosperous of the Muslim countries - entire families are dropping everything to find salvation in what one academic describes as a ISTANBUL (AP) — The Islamic State group is run by religious zealots and marked by war, mass killings, crucifixions and beheadings.


Report: Services for female veterans fall short

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:18 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Veterans Affairs Department and other government agencies are not doing enough to help women who served in the military, even as their number is rising dramatically, according to a new report.

France to probe 'jihadist' bungle

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:13 PM PDT

Paratroopers patrol under the Eiffel Tower in Paris on September 23, 2014Paris (AFP) - France's interior minister on Wednesday announced a probe into a series of blunders that saw three suspected jihadists waltz out of a French airport after being transferred from Turkish custody.


UK Parliament recalled to discuss Iraq airstrikes

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:07 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a high-level meeting at the Ford Foundation on post-2015 anti-poverty goals, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, Pool)LONDON (AP) — Britain's Parliament has been recalled to debate whether the country should support air strikes to thwart Islamic State group extremists in Iraq, Prime Minster David Cameron said Wednesday.


US sanctions foreign fighter facilitators

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 01:01 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on eight people it says have helped finance or facilitate the movement of foreign fighters joining the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, two Syrian extremist groups that have been the subject of recent American military strikes.

Jihadists behead Frenchman seized in Algeria

Posted: 24 Sep 2014 12:51 PM PDT

An undated recent handout photo shows 55-year-old Herve Gourdel, who was kidnapped on September 21, 2014 by Jund al-Khilifa, a group linked to radical Islamic State (IS) militants in the mountainous Tizi Ouzou region in eastern AlgeriaAlgiers (AFP) - Jihadists linked to the Islamic State group beheaded a Frenchman abducted in Algeria in a video posted online Wednesday, but President Francois Hollande vowed France would not give in to blackmail.


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